President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly pressuring senators directly to confirm Matt Gaetz as his attorney general. The identities of the targeted senators has not been disclosed, but the reporting illustrates his intent to have the former lawmaker be appointed despite being engulfed in a scandal where he has been accused of having sex with a minor and paying two other women for sex in 2017.
Gaetz's nomination is perhaps the most contentious of Trump's desired cabinet, and his push clashes with the growing list of voices who are speaking against it. Among the latest to do so is Charlie Dent, who served as a Republican Pennsylvania Rep. and chaired the House Ethics Committee.
